directory names in a flat file - Shell Programming and Scripting

surjyap · #1 (**permalink**) 10-05-2005

Hi,
Consider a flat file abc.conf contains some rows. Each row contains the directory name with full path. now I want to find a particular file in every directory which are mentioned in the abc.conf file. How it can be done through unix shell script.

vino · #2 (**permalink**) 10-05-2005

If you are searching for abc.txt.

Code:

while read dir
do
echo "Searching in $dir"
find "$dir" -name abc.txt
done < abc.conf

Not tested.

dradhzn · #3 (**permalink**) 10-06-2005

find `cat abc.conf` -name filename.ext

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